Artist's statement I create these fibre sculpture figures to honour life, and life is most obvious through its creatures’ expressions. Be that creature human or animal, our expressions are the loudest testament to being alive. We, with our millions of individually unique faces and bodies, are what make earth exciting, dramatic, passionate, miserable, ecstatic, turbulent, gentle, hateful, beautiful and so much more, just by resting our head this way or looking at each other that way, closing our eyes or opening our mouths to Roaar or howl at the moon. And then there are our offspring…watching, learning, imitating and aspiring to become us, until their old enough to love who they are. This is where my creations come in. To teach children at a young age to love their childhood and bring them into the art world through their own world of storytelling and expressions. We confine art to the adult world and our appreciation is often attached to “experience”. At the same time we crave that uncomplicated, free expression that often eludes experienced artists as they lose the child within them, and with the child, their truest freedom of expression. Nature is where I find my freedom. My child. And that is where my figures, along with a story written up for each one, is inspired from. To be a reminder that there remains much to love about life
Home Decore
Home Design
One of the reasons batik was introduced to the R. W. W. Art Centre is because of it's practicality. Batik is so versatile one is only limited by their imagination in how many ways one can use it.
The other (main) reason Batik was introduced was to prove that through any artistic methods beautiful creations can be made if the artist is given the confidence & freedom he/she needs to create. By providing the artists with this sense of security in their own artistic abilities, the R. W.W. batik artists created masterpieces of expression with their own Egyptian village as inspiration.
In this section, they are inspired by their own homes to decorate ours
